Dolores Ritchie

Dolores “Lucky” Stewart Ritchie, age 67, of Erie, PA transitioned from this life at home on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, after fighting a brief illness. Dolores was born in Bolivar County of Mississippi on April 2, 1953 to the late Sadie Mae and Robert Rose and moved to Erie, PA as a young girl.

Dolores graduated from Academy High School in 1965. She was employed at the Bayfront NATO Inc., Martin Luther King Center, for several years. Her passion was knitting and gardening. When she wasn’t knitting or gardening, she enjoyed playing and teaching children sign language.

Besides her parents, Dolores was preceded in death by her brother, Anthony Rose, sister, Beatrice Rose Thompson, and sister-in-law Loretta Watson.

She leaves to cherish in her memory her loving husband of 17 years, John D. Ritchie, Jr.; three daughters, Denise Alexander, Tabitha Lindsey, of Erie, PA, and Erica Stewart of Pittsburgh, PA; four sons, DeWayne Stewart Lloyd of Cleveland, Miss., Marvin Stewart Lloyd, Andre Jenkins, and Dolorean Stewart of Erie, PA, 32 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one brother Willie Watson of Chicago, Ill., one sister dear to her heart Michelle Rose of Erie, PA. She is further survived by ten step children, many step grandchildren and step great-grandchildren, and a host of uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.

Services are private. Professional services are entrusted to Burton Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 602 W. 10^th St.  Send condolences at www.Burtonfuneralhome.com.